May 19, 2014
by Steve Smith

DAVID T. LITTLE: ‘Haunt of Last Nightfall’
Third Coast Percussion
(New Amsterdam)
David T. Little is quickly gaining a reputation as an opera composer of substantial promise, but “Haunt of Last Nightfall,” a percussion work just over half an hour long, shows that his dramatic instincts extend well beyond the theatrical stage. Billed as a “ghost play” inspired by a 1981 massacre in El Salvador, the music moves from rusticity through violence, despair and outrage in this eloquent account by Chicago’s versatile, resourceful Third Coast Percussion.

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